BUFFON, Georges Louis Marie Leclerc. Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale [and others], 1750-1788, 35 volumes only, 4°, mixed edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, 943 engraved plates, 10 folding maps, vignettes and headpieces (a few volumes quite affected by damp with severe tears and holes with loss of text and images, occasional spotting and marginal dampstaining), contemporary calf gilt (worn), bookplate of Chaltfont House. [Nissen ZBI 672] Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return. (35)